Been saying that. The power of AE Gief is U2. How many MU’s out there really is better with u1?
Duds, Cody, Mak, Hak, Abel, Gouken, Dan and Maybe Boxer and Rufus.
I think Vance goes with u1 mostly because he’s gdlk with the walking 720, that’s tough to forfeit.
UltraDavid where you able to speak with Snakeeyes about Gief?
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Friends of mine been saying Snakeeyes thinks Gief losing ex gh kd is a buff. But they’re probably lying
Haven’t talked with him about it, if I see him at WNF I’ll ask. He’s relatively new to SF4 Zangief, a very different character than HDR Gief, but it’ll be interesting to know how he feels.
I agree completely. I think people are too focused on what was lost and not paying enough attention to the new things that are possible. I’m finding the threat of the new SPD is really making people back up from me even more than they used to, which is getting them to the corner sooner and causing alot of problems for them.
I was originally a SF2 series Zangief player, and the added SPD range makes him feel more like the original, which I’m more comfortable with.
snake eyez is a really good friend of mine. i have known him for like 3 yrs now. we talked aboout ex hand not knocking down… he personally likes it better but from imo he’s new to sf4 gief anyway, so i doubt kd weighed that much since he started playing at the end of super. also he said he loves giefs new spd range reminds him of hdr gief lol… which he is a expert player at.
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me vs wolfkrone, there was a shit ton of lag but u cant see it since its a replay
me vs dieminion
Alejandro, against viper, Lariat beats do many things, or at least trades kd her ass…
Can you please tell me why you lariat only twice in the three matches?
to be honest, i havent played against viper in a long time, but thats not a good enough excuse.
i was slacking, ill do better next time. im just not prone to doing lariat on wakeup really. but ur right, it would of beat out a lot of her crossup flame kicks
You back from the army zohta? Or was it the air force
u2 is useless against competent akumas if u plan to do it for anything other than shoryukens/jumps like you will do against ryu or sagat, if the akuma is any good air fireballs are not punishable and so are well timed/spaced demon flips.
Well, since you are not going to land u1 against akuma we may still want to use u2, but just saying the matchup is still the same as super a biiit better due to no scape tatsu but still one of zangief´s worst matchups.
its the airforce and yeah, but im based in oklahoma right now so theres never really much tourneys going on. and its hard to find good practice. so im just living off of online right now. dont know when ill be back home for an east coast tourney, ill probably be going home around the holidays
Damn, zohta. I just left Oklahoma for good this past summer. Wish you woulda came back sooner cause I never found any good competition out there either.
<— Lives in Oklahoma. 
lol, well I haven’t been to a tourney there in almost 2 years, so I don’t know what the scene looks like now
why does it seem like zangief players are always torn on what to do
SF4 people say he was epic based off lariat alone
Super a lot of people lost faith in him
AE he got better but even more people lost faith due to the hand nerf
Why? It’s pretty simple I think.
1.“SF4 people say he was epic based off lariat alone”-He was good but basically lost to or got murdered by all the popular tourney characters so he was kinda tourney useless.
2.“Super a lot of people lost faith in him”-He was probably the most nerfed character other than Gen. Lariat nerf, jump nerf, cr.lk nerf, health nerf, damage nerf.
3.“AE he got better but even more people lost faith due to the hand nerf”-U say he got better but I say he got worse. How people say he got better is beyond me but whatever.
I still main him cause he’s fun and I love playing him but I’ve noticed it’s harder now but maybe that’s just me. I don’t think players have lost faith. It’s just frustrating for some when ur main is the most nerfed character by far from vanilla to ae. Especially when some changes make no sense at all.Though It seems like most here have stuck with him through the changes so I don’t think anyone is “torn” on whether to play him or not.
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Anytime anyone wonders why there are people that still want to play zangief they should watch this video. LP Spd is very good now and the damage buff is nice as well. If you look at gief in standalone he got nerfed but overall he is about the same makato guy and sagat got harder seth chun bison and guile got easier.
That Buff alone makes him scarier than T.Hawk (funny they didn’t do the same thing for hawk’s light typhoon)